Does anyone have a great recipe for a mojito??!
Does anyone have a great recipe for a mojito??
Answers:
here's how i make it at work...
2 oz. Rum, light
1 splash Carbonated Water/Club Soda
1 splash Ginger Ale
2 wedges lime
2 leaves Mint
2 oz. Sugar Syrup
Muddle lime wedges, mint, and sugar syrup together. Add this to a shaker with the rum. Shake and strain into glass. Top with soda and ginger ale.
1 lime, cut into 16 pieces, plus more for garnish
16 fresh mint leaves, plus sprigs for garnish
2 tablespoons superfine sugar
1/2 cup white rum
Seltzer water
Divide the lime pieces, mint leaves, and sugar evenly among 2 (12-ounce) glasses. Using a muddler, mash the lime pieces and bruise the mint leaves while dissolving the sugar. Add enough chipped ice to each glass to fill. Add 4 ounces of rum to each glass, then use a cocktail shaker to combine and thoroughly chill each drink separately. Pour the contents of the shaker back into the glasses and top each drink with a splash of the seltzer water. Garnish the glasses with lime and mint sprigs.
This is the original cuban Mojito recipe, the one Hemingway loved.
1 teaspoon powdered sugar
Juice from 1 lime (2 ounces)
4 mint leaves
1 sprig of mint
Havana Club white Rum (2 ounces)
2 ounces club soda
Place the mint leaves into a long mojito glass (often called a "collins" glass) and squeeze the juice from a cut lime over it. You'll want about two ounces of lime juice, so it may not require all of the juice from a single lime. Add the powdered sugar, then gently smash the mint into the lime juice and sugar with a muddler (a long wooden device pictured below, though you can also use the back of a fork or spoon if one isn't available). Add ice (preferably crushed) then add the rum and stir, and top off with the club soda. Garnish with a mint sprig.
** Optional ** While the following isn't the authentic original Bodeguita del Medio Cuban recipe for a mojito, some people will take half of the juiced lime and cut into into four wedges to add to the glass. Another variation is to add Angostura bitters to cut the mojito's sweetness, which is a popular version in Havana hotels although not the true Bodeguita recipe. Some Cubans also use "guarapo" in place of the powdered sugar, which is a sugar cane syrup available in some supermarkets or online Latin grocery stores.
INGREDIENTS:
2 tsp sugar
6-8 mint leaves
club soda
1 lime, halved
2 oz light rum
mint sprig for garnish
PREPARATION:
Place the sugar, the mint leaves, and a little club soda into a highball glass.
Muddle well to dissolve the sugar and to release the mint flavor.
Squeeze the juice from both halves of the lime into the glass.
Drop one half of the lime into the glass.
Add the rum.
Stir.
Fill the glass with ice cubes.
Add the rest of the club soda.
Garnish with the mint sprig.